Chapter 564 - 322: Another Celestial Tier!

"Well, the matter is urgent. We shall return to the Prefecture City first."

Unlike the young Lan Yanni, Pei Ze really couldn’t bring himself to say the word "brother-in-law."

Naturally, Chen Yi guessed as much. He chuckled and nodded. "Thank you for your trouble."

"You’re too polite..."

After Pei Ze and the others left with Yan Jingchen and the corpses, Chen Yi walked over to Zhang Dabao and his group.

He glanced over them one by one, then rapidly waved his hands, executing the Controlling Needle with Qi technique. Streaks of silver needles landed on the injured, rapidly healing their wounds.

Only Liu Lang, the most heavily injured of the bunch, remained weakly leaning against the cart wheel, his expression full of eager anticipation. To his surprise, after Chen Yi finished treating the others, he actually put the silver needles away as if he had completely forgotten about him.

"The refugees outside the East City Gate are a major concern. Take advantage of the dark and transport a portion of the grain to Lin Village first," Chen Yi instructed.

Zhang Dabao, Jin Peng, and the others nodded in acknowledgment.

Chen Yi gave a few more instructions and turned to leave.

Unable to hold back any longer, Liu Lang hastily called out, "Boss, Boss, what about me? I... I’m still injured..."

Chen Yi stopped and turned his head to look at him, a look of sudden realization dawning on his face. "I almost forgot."

Liu Lang chuckled. "You’re a busy man, Boss. No rush..."

Before he could finish, Chen Yi vanished in a flash. "Since that’s the case, just endure it for now.

"Don’t worry, you won’t die."

The smile on Liu Lang’s face froze. He stared blankly at the silhouette that disappeared in the blink of an eye, completely caught off guard.

After a long while, he turned to Zhang Dabao and asked blankly, "Did I offend the boss in some way?"

Zhang Dabao tried hard to suppress his laughter, his body trembling slightly. "Probably... not?"

"Then, then why didn’t he heal me? I almost died at the hands of those old poisonous freaks just now!"

"Don’t overthink it, Brother Liu. Perhaps the boss is tempering you," Zhang Dabao replied.

"Tempering? He’s tempering me? Damn it, I’ve never experienced the ’tempering’ of having more than half of my meridians severed!"

"Well, now you have."

"You son of a..."

A few moments later, Chen Yi arrived at the Chishui Riverbank.

Tonight, he had only seen Yan Jingchen and his group ambushing Liu Lang’s party, but he hadn’t come across Lin Zhenghong’s location. Therefore, he had followed the cart tracks all the way here.

Just as expected, he found the ground littered with corpses, and among them was Lin Zhenghong.

Chen Yi scanned the area. After confirming there were no survivors, he stood by the Chishui River and gazed in the direction of the Prefecture City.

"People from the Liu Family?" he suddenly chuckled after some thought.

The corpses here showed no traces of Poison Power. Instead, they were pierced by crossbow arrows originating from the military garrison. Clearly, someone else had murdered Lin Zhenghong. However, the Liu Family had come to hijack the convoy, but whatever they were after was destined to elude them.

"Trying to get something for nothing?

"Heh, too late!"

Not long after, Chen Yi sneaked into the Prefecture City, only to find that more than half of the city was brightly lit and ablaze with lights. Faintly, a cacophony of noises drifted over.

"Hurry, open the door!"

"Officers, what... what are you doing? It’s the middle of the night... Do you know my master’s identity?"

"I don’t care about your identity! This is a matter of life and death, so get out of the way!"

Similar scenes were playing out all over the Prefecture City. Some cooperated, while others resisted. The clamor, arguments, and shouting soon dissolved into panic and terror, mixed with the faint sounds of crying. The commotion was easily comparable to the time when Xiao Wan’er was kidnapped by Du Cang.

The City Guard Army, the Government Office officials, and even the soldiers stationed outside the city had all been mobilized. Everyone was fully armed, their faces covered with water-soaked cloth strips. Additionally, the physicians from the city’s Medicine Halls had been forcibly conscripted, ordered to prepare medicinal herbs or follow the government officials to various parts of the city.

Seeing this, Chen Yi knew that Elder Master Xiao had made his move.

"Alas, water can keep a boat afloat, but it can also overturn it..." he muttered.

Such a simple truth, yet there were always people who failed to understand it. It would have been one thing if they simply didn’t understand, but they even attempted to poison an entire region just to satisfy their own selfish desires.

Their crimes were punishable by death!